Childhood Museum

Here is an interesting flickr photoset of a childhood museum contained in a Skippy peanut butter jar that was bought at a garage sale for $1. It's given more care in it's new owner's hands than it was in the hands of the person's actual relatives. This is very much a generational thing. My father has a tin containing this sort of stuff, but it is from more of his adulthood than his childhood and I can't imagine selling it for a dollar when he is gone.

On the subject of museums of all shapes and sizes, here are a few more that are of odd interest and beauty. Some of these started as a "cabinet of curiosities" which was the rave for a while as a past time of the rich and eccentric.

The House On The Rock
The Museum of Juriasic Technology
The King's Kunstkammer
Gordon Rutter
Everyone should go out and buy s nice armoire with shelves and hundreds of drawers and start your own cabinet of curiosities. Place it in the study where you and friends can marvel over its contents with cognac and brandy and warm yourselves with a fire.